Configuring an SR-IOV Ethernet network attachment

You can configure an Ethernet network attachment for an Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) device in the cluster.

Ethernet device configuration object

You can configure an Ethernet network device by defining an SriovNetwork object.

The following YAML describes an SriovNetwork object:

apiVersion: sriovnetwork.openshift.io/v1
kind: SriovNetwork
metadata:
  name: <name> (1)
  namespace: openshift-sriov-network-operator (2)
spec:
  resourceName: <sriov_resource_name> (3)
  networkNamespace: <target_namespace> (4)
  vlan: <vlan> (5)
  spoofChk: "<spoof_check>" (6)
  ipam: |- (7)
    {}
  linkState: <link_state> (8)
  maxTxRate: <max_tx_rate> (9)
  minTxRate: <min_tx_rate> (10)
  vlanQoS: <vlan_qos> (11)
  trust: "<trust_vf>" (12)
  capabilities: <capabilities> (13)

Configuration for ipam CNI plug-in

The ipam Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-in provides IP address management (IPAM) for other CNI plug-ins.

You can use the following methods for IP address assignment:

• Static assignment.

• Dynamic assignment through a DHCP server. The DHCP server you specify must be reachable from the additional network.

• Dynamic assignment through the Whereabouts IPAM CNI plug-in.

Static IP address assignment configuration

The following JSON describes the configuration for static IP address assignment:

Static assignment configuration

{
  "ipam": {
    "type": "static",
    "addresses": [ (1)
      {
        "address": "<address>", (2)
        "gateway": "<gateway>" (3)
      }
    ],
    "routes": [ (4)
      {
        "dst": "<dst>", (5)
        "gw": "<gw>" (6)
      }
    ],
    "dns": { (7)
      "nameservers": ["<nameserver>"], (8)
      "domain": "<domain>", (9)
      "search": ["<search_domain>"] (10)
    }
  }
}

Dynamic IP address assignment configuration

The following JSON describes the configuration for dynamic IP address address assignment with DHCP.

apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1
kind: Network
metadata:
  name: cluster
spec:
  …
  additionalNetworks:
  - name: dhcp-shim
    namespace: default
    type: Raw
    rawCNIConfig: |-
      {
        “name”: “dhcp-shim”,
        “cniVersion”: “0.3.1”,
        “type”: “bridge”,
        “ipam”: {
          “type”: “dhcp”
        }
      }

DHCP assignment configuration

{
  "ipam": {
    "type": "dhcp"
  }
}

Dynamic IP address assignment configuration with Whereabouts

The Whereabouts CNI plug-in allows the dynamic assignment of an IP address to an additional network without the use of a DHCP server.

The following JSON describes the configuration for dynamic IP address assignment with Whereabouts:

Whereabouts assignment configuration

{
  "ipam": {
    "type": "whereabouts",
    "range": "<range>", (1)
    "exclude": ["<exclude_part>, ..."], (2)
  }
}

Static IP address assignment configuration example

You can configure ipam for static IP address assignment:

{
  "ipam": {
    "type": "static",
      "addresses": [
        {
          "address": "191.168.1.7"
        }
      ]
  }
}

Dynamic IP address assignment configuration example using DHCP

You can configure ipam for DHCP:

{
  "ipam": {
    "type": "dhcp"
  }
}

Dynamic IP address assignment configuration example using Whereabouts

You can configure ipam to use Whereabouts:

{
  "ipam": {
    "type": "whereabouts",
    "range": "192.0.2.192/27",
    "exclude": [
       "192.0.2.192/30",
       "192.0.2.196/32"
    ]
  }
}

Configuring SR-IOV additional network

You can configure an additional network that uses SR-IOV hardware by creating a SriovNetwork object. When you create a SriovNetwork object, the SR-IOV Operator automatically creates a NetworkAttachmentDefinition object.

Prerequisites

• Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).

• Log in as a user with cluster-admin privileges.

Procedure

1. Create a SriovNetwork object, and then save the YAML in the <name>.yaml file, where <name> is a name for this additional network. The object specification might resemble the following example:

   apiVersion: sriovnetwork.openshift.io/v1
   kind: SriovNetwork
   metadata:
     name: attach1
     namespace: openshift-sriov-network-operator
   spec:
     resourceName: net1
     networkNamespace: project2
     ipam: |-
       {
         "type": "host-local",
         "subnet": "10.56.217.0/24",
         "rangeStart": "10.56.217.171",
         "rangeEnd": "10.56.217.181",
         "gateway": "10.56.217.1"
       }

2. To create the object, enter the following command:

   $ oc create -f <name>.yaml

   where <name> specifies the name of the additional network.

3. Optional: To confirm that the NetworkAttachmentDefinition object that is associated with the SriovNetwork object that you created in the previous step exists, enter the following command. Replace <namespace> with the networkNamespace you specified in the SriovNetwork object.

   $ oc get net-attach-def -n <namespace>

Next steps

• Adding a pod to an SR-IOV additional network

Additional resources

• Configuring an SR-IOV network device